The Department of Software Engineering is to serve the nation with the products of excellence in education and practice and to instill in students professional skills, attitudes, values, and vision in the profession of Software Engineering. As one of the natures of Entrepreneurial Development, the department also provides various and sufficient business training in order to seed the enterprising spirit into the graduates.
The Department helped establish and develop the methods used in the Software industry, especially in programming development and design. The Software industry has long been though of as a clean industry without pollution and perfectly fitted into the environmental protection policy of Yilan county.